“I'm a guy from the neighborhood who made it, and I'm never going to forget where I came from.”— Richard J. Codey
“I am from a place, from a land. I am a tree, with roots in a country. People who are not from one place are like a tree without roots, which cannot bear fruit.”— Eduardo Chillida
“You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.”— Buck Owens
“When you leave you must remember to come back for the others. A circle, understand? You will always be Mango Street.”— Sandra Cisneros
“I was born in Decatur, was raised in Newton County, and went to school in Newton County. I know the county.”— Medgar Evers